GNU nano 2.9.0

Post by lyrachord » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 8:01 AM UTC

Post by vidarh » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 9:23 AM UTC

matt_wulfeck wrote: post #26

petercooper wrote: post #14

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Every time I'm sysadminning some Linux server or another. It's everywhere and does the job well enough without me having to learn vim :-D I also often use it to look inside random files on my Mac that won't open anywhere else (e.g. .xml, .json, files without extension names).

I think vi is probably more ubiquitous though, especially since it’s included in busybox which powers almost all imbedded Linux hosts. Still a good idea to learn a little vim

Post by danieltillett » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 9:52 AM UTC

Post by confounded » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 10:33 AM UTC

im_down_w_otp wrote: post #9

millstone wrote: post #5

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Why do you use nano?

I use it in a pinch fairly constantly. Despite being a heavily customized Emacs user all the rest of the time. Mostly when I'm already scouring around the shell poking at files or need to make a simple new one (like a .gitignore) and I don't want/need to perturb whatever else I'm doing in Emacs.

    et() {
        emacsclient -tty --alternate-editor '' "$@"
    }

Post by throwaway613834 » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 11:03 AM UTC

phillc73 wrote: post #48

throwaway613834 wrote: post #8

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It's simple, it's on every platform I ever SSH into, and it gets the job done quickly?

Exactly this reason. You just know it will always be installed. And I still type "pico".